<p>I'm kind of under crunch time for making a decision, because I need to inform one program by a week from tomorrow. </p>
<p>I'm very torn in deciding where to go to school. I have been accpeted to Harvard, Yale, UNC (Morehead-Cain/Honors Program), Georgetown SFS, Duke, and BC (Presidential Scholars Program). I was waitlisted at Princeton. </p>
<p>I know that I am interested in studying international relations, and probably persuing a career in human rights (right now considering human rights law). I also want to study languages in college, especially Spanish, Arabic, and French. </p>
<p>I think that I have mostly narrowed down the list to Havard, Yale (leaning towards Yale of those two), and UNC (once in a while I wonder about SFS, though) </p>
<p>I guess I could just use any input...The Morehead seems pretty hard to pass-up, and I love that I could get started working internationally right away. I think I am leaning towards that right now, but I am having a lot of trouble making a definite decision.</p>
<p>CC regular eadad can talk very eloquently about his son’s experience with the Morehead-Cain. His son turned down Yale, and had a great experience at UNC-Chapel Hill with the Morehead.</p>
<p>Harvard and Yale are obviously great schools, but they aren’t going to offer you the summer or academic-year experiences of the Morehead-Cain. In total, the Morehead Foundation provides over $28,000 in additional research/travel support for each of its scholars on top of the fully-funded UNC education.</p>
<p>Clearly, you’re an accomplished individual. I think the Morehead-Cain has the potential to provide you with the resources (financial and otherwise) to create an undergraduate experience far superior to that you’d have anywhere else, including at Harvard/et al.</p>
<p>What is most important about college is what you DO while there. And, quite simply, programs like the Morehead-Cain and Robertson (at UNC/Duke) enable you to do some extraordinary things.</p>
<p>thanks, thoughtprovoking. </p>
<p>anyone else?</p>
<p>What are the financial offers at Harvard, Yale and SFS?</p>
<p>barely anything…$6000 in loans, I think. My parents say to make the decision first without thinking about the money, though obviously it’s hard to ignore, and depending on what I choose we could talk about it later. My parents would probably take the loans, but I would obviously have to work. </p>
<p>I’m also wondering about a comparison in the academic climate between the three.</p>
<p>^ I’d choose the UNC deal. You’re saving a LOT of money.</p>
<p>Could anyone comment on the differences in the academic climate between UNC and Yale? </p>
<p>It’s really important to me to be in classes with people who enjoy learning for learning’s sake…While I am happy to be at a place where people have a life outside of their academics (! of course !) I would also like to be somewhere where people continue talking about a class discussion after that class has ended, or discuss academic topics, at times (not always!) outside of official schooling.</p>